BOLSHÓV. Come, all right! Don't you give 'em more than ten kopeks. That'll do for them. Well, kiss each other!
LÍPOCHKA and LÁZAR do so.
AGRAFÉNA KONDRÁTYEVNA. Ah, my little doves! How in the world did it happen!
I declare I've quite lost my head.
USTÍNYA NAÚMOVNA.
"Whoever heard or saw such things?
The elephant's learning to fly with wings;
The hen laid a door-knob instead of an egg;
And piggy is dancing a jig on a keg!"
She pours out wine and goes up to RISPOLÓZHENSKY; RISPOLÓZHENSKY bows and declines the wine.
BOLSHÓV. Drink to their happiness, Sysóy Psoich.
RISPOLÓZHENSKY. I can't, Samsón Sílych—it turns my stomach!
BOLSHÓV. Go along with you! Drink to their happiness.
USTÍNYA NAÚMOVNA. He's always showing off!